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On February 7, 1812 in Portsea, Charles Dickens began his life. His father, John Dickens, spent little time with Charles. The family lived in poverty and John was in prison much of the time. When Charles was two, the family moved to London. At age twelve, Charles worked in a factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He only worked there for a few months, but it was a miserable experience that would remain with him his whole life.
Dickens attended school until he was fifteen. He always enjoyed reading, and especially adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. Authors like William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding greatly influenced his work. However, most of the knowledge he used as an author came from his environment around him.
In the late 1820s, Dickens became a newspaper writer and reporter. Dickens= first book, Sketches by Boz, written in 1836, consisted of articles he wrote for the London Chronicles. After he married Catherine Hogarth
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After the rebels break Manette out of the Bastille, he evolves back into the man he was before the imprisonment. He knows everything, including what the characters do not know. The main action is in England and France during the French revolution. Dickens had a remarkable mental and physical energy.
When Dickens was twenty-four, he became famous for the rest of his life. in 1836, his first work printed in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. To set the emotional scene Dickens describes the feelings of the characters. DeFarge releases Darney and everyone is happy.
There are many conflicts in this story and one of these is Sydney Carton's conflict with his past and outer self. He dies for Lucie, in the place of Darney in the end of the story.
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